I think I've seen a couple of the times this has happened. It appears to me that it might be in reaction to a perceived misunderstanding of the topic on either party. If we assume good faith on both sides; then I think it's reasonable for the perceived 'trolling' party to gently restate their position.
Ordinarily I would hold that we should simply be silent when we think we're being trolled -- but over a mailing list that can be perceived as if we're ignoring things. As we sometimes do in fact do this on purpose; I appreciate the feedback loop when a party perceives it so that we can correct and move on so that no one gets ignored unless we really do mean to ignore them. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey, > > In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only > contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive and > only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule > against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a > definition of the etiquette for this list somewhere, I suggest having a > similar rule be added there. Thoughts? > > (I'm now half expecting someone to claim this mail is a troll. Perhaps we > ought to make a contest out of making the accusation first, at least then > it will have general amusement value :D) > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > http://www.bn2vs.com > Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
